**If Spellcrafters value anything, it's family**. (And a good deal from the clearance rack, and an exceptional hand of poker. But mainly family.) So, when a long-lost relative surfaces, everyone is absolutely thrilled...until the newcomer challenges Dixon for the title of Hand. Yuri is perfectly w
It's All Relative
โ Scribed by Wade, Rouse
- Book ID
- 107520261
- Publisher
- Crown Publishing Group
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 398 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780307718723
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
How come the only thing my family tree ever grows is nuts?''
Wade Rouse attempts to answer that question in his blisteringly funny new memoir by looking at the yearly celebrations that unite us all and bring out the very best and worst in our nearest and dearest.
Family is truly the only gift that keeps on giving--namely, the gifts of dysfunction and eccentricity--
and Wade Rouse's family has been especially charitable: His chatty yet loving mother dresses her son
as a Ubangi tribesman, in blackface, for Halloween in the rural Ozarks; his unconventional engineer of
a father buries his children's Easter eggs; his marvelously
Martha Stewart--esque partner believes Barbie is his baby; his garage-sale obsessed set of in-laws are
convinced they can earn more than Warren Buffett by selling their broken lamps and Nehru jackets; his
mutt Marge speaks her own language; and his oddball collection of relatives includes a tipsy Santa Claus
with an...
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